Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 12, 2018

I want to offer some thoughts that need us all involved in innovation to think about as we finish out 2018. If you are frustrated with your current innovation process then read on. Much of the current innovation process you are currently working with is a Dinosaur, it should have disappeared long ago. I think not.

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Software Review Software Innovation Underperforming Technical Team 222

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The ability to access cutting-edge research, market insights, and technical know-how from a wide network is a key driver of innovation. This shared risk allows for bolder experimentation and innovation, as the potential downsides are not borne by a single entity. This makes the path to market smoother and more predictable.

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Technical Review Innovation Policies Collaboration 140

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

As he points out, “Today, Generative AI stands as a testament to the power of human imagination and technological innovation. It has grown from humble beginnings into a sophisticated technology capable of producing remarkable output.” Utilize the AI models to brainstorm and develop innovative ideas and solutions.

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ChatGPT Technical Review Generative AI Innovation 183

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 26, 2015

It is highly reliant on manual systems with people often disconnected from the real innovation engagement making decisions on inadequate data or insights. The balance in innovation activity is changing. What needs changing is the innovation process to accommodate these changes that are occurring all around us.

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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 24, 2023

Energy innovation systems need a really much stronger and more effective push to deliver a broad range of technologies and solutions to the market faster than what is happening today. The Energy Industry can be deemed as a laggard in adoption along the five stages of technology adoption.

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Technical Review Innovation System Collaboration 201

Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 26, 2023

I have written on this site alone, www.paul4innovating.com, by just coming up to a milestone of 700 posts focusing on innovation thoughts and opinions, so I just wanted to pause and think about all the different places I have tried to get the innovation message(s) out. Let me start.

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Software Review Technical Review Innovation Collaboration 183

Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

To do this, technology adoption and diffusion across the ecosystem needs to improve dramatically. this reluctance to embrace a new digitally connected world is feeding the “seeds of destruction” Customers expect rapid response, reduced delays, tailored designs and greater engagement.

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Industry Technical Review Design Innovation 213

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 27, 2017

T he potential value of abundant data and information is greatly constrained by the technical challenges of storing, processing, sharing and analyzing it. The Innovation Perspective view here is this: For innovation, this is the looking across borders and connecting understanding. Inaccessible information. “T

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Technical Review Innovation Report Disruption 179

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 24, 2022

The platform’s ability to offer multiple values will influence many of the client’s adoption decisions over the choices their business will engage with. ” I suggested in this post, “ Platforms allow you the opportunity to innovate in very different ways. Diffusion and Adoption of Innovation- theory into reality.

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Technical Review Innovation Engagement Collaboration 183

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 25, 2019

The suggestion in the report is there are two possible bottlenecks from the innovative perspective might be contributing to the forward-looking innovation investment and adoptions needed. This fits very much with the present needs of innovators, managing on the job, are struggling to scale and attract the right levels of investments.

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Policies Report Technical Review Innovation 182

Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 1, 2018

The survey exposes the myth that innovation is not one of the three top challenges, innovation ranks fifth as it follows the more conventional concerns of managing talent as the top (and that did surprise me) and regulatory and competitive threats. Now that is very disappointing but what do we expect from innovation?

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Report Innovation Survey Disruption 212

Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

We fail to constantly review and re-engineer the innovation process and tend to layer more upon it, without a consistent reassessing what we are trying to achieve. The excitement of ‘breaking innovation’ is in the pioneering, experimenting, discovering, sharing and exchanging.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

A speaker’s ability to captivate, engage, and inspire the audience sets the tone and leaves a lasting impression. On the other hand, an ill-suited speaker may lead to disinterest, a lack of engagement, and a negative perception of the event’s value.

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Technical Review Innovation Engagement Conference 100

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 12, 2023

In my view any new approach to innovation needs to aim to achieve interdependent and interlocking innovation, solving problems that have not been addressed before and offering sustainable value, impact, and returns to all involved or significantly improving on the existing solutions.

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Qmarkets

JULY 11, 2024

Innovation is critical for businesses of all shapes and sizes, from launching a first product to making a new global acquisition. However corporate innovation is often the most complex and challenging due to its scale and scope. Success in corporate innovation requires a thoughtful approach to overcoming these obstacles.

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Paul Hobcraft

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Innovation is one of those activities that constantly “swim against the currents of the dominating culture of the organization” We cripple our creative process as it is often not visible or transparent; the innovative process can be seen as a “black box” by many in the organization; they only can judge the end result.

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Software Review Innovation Design Technical Review 163

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 1, 2023

We need systems and processes that are flexible, adaptable, and can enable continuous improvements but are fully connected, transparent, and integrated across the entire business. The principles of this Composable Innovation Enterprise Framework are the recognition and value of having a building block and innovation stack design.

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Software Review Software Innovation Design 246

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 19, 2023

Combining these “building blocks” modularly in innovation stacks creates a unique design that adapts to your specific needs and goals. Today, innovation processes are partly designed this way but are more rigid and hold knowledge often as “islands” within a possible solution.

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Technical Review Software Review Innovation Design 130

Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Why Innovation is a Critical Theme for Keynote Speeches Innovation remains a key driver of success in the business world, and as such, it is a critical theme for keynote speeches at corporate events. A focus on innovation helps companies to adapt to rapidly changing markets, embrace new technologies, and stay ahead of the competition.

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Technical Review Innovation Trends Engagement 100

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 9, 2021

“Reducing global CO2 emissions will require a broad range of different technologies working across all sectors of the economy in various combinations and applications. These technologies are at widely varying stages of development. Innovation has been always suggested to be the required antidote to any crisis.

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Policies Technical Review Innovation Report 190

Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 23, 2019

This whole area has been rapidly modernizing into a product innovation platforms to support key elements of sustainable solutions that maintain, adapt, upgrade, integrate and keep multiple systems of record for designs that due to the platform approach can be easily shared within, across and outside the old environment.

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Innovation Management Management Software Review Software 200

Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

In the past few months, I have been writing consistently on the need to change our innovating process, thinking and designs into Innovation Ecosystem ones. This will be my initial view of how this needs to be shaped as the overriding architecture of an Innovation Ecosystem. Source: tmforum.org. Do you agree?

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Innovation Technical Review Design Collaboration 205

Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 9, 2019

Throughout the past couple of years, I have been constantly arguing about the need to put innovation management on a digital platform. These have come in different thoughts on digital platforms, ready for cross-industry and having in place, a rapid digital innovation process that scales and evolves on new technology and insights.

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Software Review Software Innovation Collaboration 186

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 26, 2017

The day before the main event I was included in the Industry Analysts visit to the Siemens Technology Center, at Neuperlach in Munich. We were provided a variety of insights in different presentations and demonstrations, of the technology they are working upon. Time to market suffers for one. Time to market suffers for one.

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Industry Technical Review Competition Technology 187

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Other cognitive abilities, such as critical thinking, creativity, problem-solving skills, and the ability to connect disparate ideas, play significant roles in the innovative process. The ability to make novel connections and drive innovation also demands domain expertise. Grabbing the earlier value needs focusing.

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Innovation ChatGPT Creativity Trends 163

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 28, 2018

Jeffrey and I believed, even more so today , that the innovation space needs a common starting point – a collaborative reference model. We constructed a four-layered innovation model building around 1) strategy, 2) different necessary innovation approaches, 3) people and culture and 4) processes and platforms.

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Software Review Software Technical Review Innovation 167

Paul Hobcraft

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Large-scale product runs are being adapted to meet more specific opportunities; response rates and customer engagement are being hugely advanced by technology and constant exploring the full customer journey with data and analytics helping the understanding. Hierarchy and delegation are flattening out and seeking engagement.

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Innovation Software Review Design Engagement 222

Qmarkets

JULY 22, 2021

So, the process itself must be carefully tailored to your organization’s culture, needs, and fit seamlessly within your business to ensure employee adoption. In today’s blog we will define the key steps that should be included within an effective idea generation process to maximize idea submissions, engagement, and eventually implementation.

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Leapfrogging

APRIL 10, 2024

They bring stories of success and failure that can humanize the innovation process and make it more relatable. Their talks can be a catalyst for change, encouraging your team to pursue innovation with renewed vigor. By discussing the innovation process, they can: Ignite the spark of ideation and creativity within your team.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 9, 2021

“Reducing global CO2 emissions will require a broad range of different technologies working across all sectors of the economy in various combinations and applications. These technologies are at widely varying stages of development. Innovation has been always suggested to be the required antidote to any crisis.

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Policies Technical Review Innovation Report 130

Paul Hobcraft

AUGUST 7, 2015

The significant shifts deriving from technology change and digital disruption are not yet being translated into new innovation processes, frameworks or methods to extract the value of speed and unique insight and translate that out quickly into new products and services. Moving towards a new way of doing things.

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Paul Hobcraft

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

So from what I can see so far, change is highly constrained: Evolution is slow, revolution is seemingly non-existent due to narrow vested interests. We need to engage differently. We need to engage differently. Digital connections and technology platforms. Unleashing the talent, changing the cultures.

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Gregg Fraley

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Digital Technology Remains An Unharvested Field. There is so much innovation potential being left on the table, right now, that our future could truly be that shining city on the hill. The potential, much of it, lays in digital technology. The pandemic shifted many of our businesses towards digital technologies.

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Roadmap Technical Review Technology Innovation Processes 98

Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 9, 2021

“Reducing global CO2 emissions will require a broad range of different technologies working across all sectors of the economy in various combinations and applications. These technologies are at widely varying stages of development. Innovation has been always suggested to be the required antidote to any crisis.

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Policies Technical Review Innovation Report 130

Paul Hobcraft

JULY 25, 2016

I could outline countless ways to work through different examples, set about a strategic and operational digital transformation roadmap, to combine effective knowledge from people and excellence gained from what you need to do in IT and your technologies to get this going, but I will not here, as this is an opening primer, not a solution.

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Technical Review Innovation Technology Engagement 133

Paul Hobcraft

MAY 6, 2018

We also know today that innovation management itself must become “fluid” in design, in adaptation so the right approach is to be constantly ‘adaptive’ and put together what is needed to tackle the challenge that needs resolution. This needs designing in unique ways, not in rigid processes and structures.

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Design Innovation System Agile 138

IdeaScale

MARCH 13, 2018

This lightweight, technologically proficient reinvention of existing MP3 players was an global phenomenon that has since sold more than 400 million units since 2001. Similar innovation strategies can be noted within all fields of industry; from the technology sector to the entertainment industry. ” The end result was a 6.5

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